US President Donald Trump met Saturday with the emir and prime minister of Qatar — a key ally in preserving the fragile Gaza peace deal — en route to Asia and high-stakes trade talks with China’s Xi Jinping.

The talks came as Israel conducted an air strike targeting an alleged Islamic Jihad militant in Gaza, despite the ceasefire brokered by the US president.

Trump is set to meet Xi in South Korea on the last day of his regional swing in a bid to seal a deal to end the bruising trade war between the world’s two biggest economies, and said he would also like to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on his trip.

He will also visit Malaysia and Japan on his first trip to Asia since he returned to the White House in January in a blaze of tariffs and international dealmaking.

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